Well on #10 for sure I’m never seeking childrearing counsel from THESE Christians.
OTOH, I dunno, 3 through 5 sound like fine parenting advice. You can be creative with discipline, you need to give them activities during the day in the early years… and the stuff *I’d *teach in homeschool would make them menaces to public order and social peace.
As to 6, well, that depends on what the other children are dressed like, doesn’t it? Maybe I’ll trade 5 for 6 and send them to a uniformed school (Catholic, if possible, to maximize the Fundies’ disapproval).
I’ll buy you 7 and teach my children to PLAY sports, just for the sake of play. I’ll teach them to worship the arts, though.
And I’ll be happy if my sons and daughters haven’t started accumulating an arrest record by the time they’re 16, never mind dating.
As for day care, what if a parent is widowed or (God forbid) DIVORCED?
I wondered if this was satire until I saw that it was written by Michael and Debi Pearl, whose parenting “guides” have been almost universally criticized.
So if children are taken to a fundamentalist Christian church, schooled at home, not exposed to sports or any entertainment, only allowed to dress, act and think like their parents do, are not allowed to date or have any contact with the outside world, and have the hell beat out of them, they will grow up fine?
“It worked out fine for my Uncle Frank.”
“You don’t have an Uncle Frank.”
“Well, he became Aunt Francine in '76. Then he joined that cult. I think his name is Mother Shabubu now.”
If you actually read the explanations for the ‘commandments’ you would at least see that kids shouldn’t be allowed to date until age 16… not ‘to not date’. I don’t agree with all of these, but to claim there was no thought behind them, or to say they were claiming in toto what they were not actually claiming is just disingenuous.
Hmm. For number 4 the day care center we took our kids to was in a church. But it was a moderate Presbyterian Church, so probably not seen as Christian in the eyes of these nitwits.
I don’t quite get 6. Exactly how would kids not talk or dress like other students? Other girls in the class wore dresses, did that mean my daughters were not allowed to? And a boy wearing a dress would violate this commandment nicely.
As for 7, I substituted “you shall teach your children logic so they can realize that religion is mostly nonsense and fundamental Christianity is totally bullshit.”
Worked pretty well.
Ya ain’t 'sposed to let the future little wimmins dress like whores… no booty shorts or tight tank tops or mini skirts with 6" heels. As for the soon-to-be Head of the House, he can’t paint his nails like some gayrod or have hippie hair or wear guy liner. You know, just like what all the other kids are doing at 8.
I can’t think of a thing more Mundane and Pointless than any Shit House Exposition of the Lie that Ensures the Slavery of the Mind known as Religion.
I’m not sure if the whoosh is over better minds who see past these for-profit control-lies… or of the bodies of the Ignorant igniting with gasoline as the truth of their lies finally dawns on them at the end.
That’s an odd list. I would have guessed satan was in favor of spanking, would encourage kids to start dating long before age 16, and encourage parents to keep their kids at home (no day care, no school) so they wouldn’t be exposed to public morals.
well of course he was. Joseph knocked up Mary. The “virgin” part is a mis-translation of a word for “unmarried young woman.” She was probably 14. Well, actually, she probably never existed.